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Re: TODO
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Gary V. Vaughan |
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Re: TODO |
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Wed, 10 Nov 2004 11:29:28 +0000 |
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Hey Bob!
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
>> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>>
>>> There may be some other existing small shell/scripting implementation
>>> which please Unix programmers but are small enough to embed in other
>>> applications.
>>
>>
>> I rather like embryo, the bytecode interpreter is <2500LOC in C.
>>
>> http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/embryo.html (down atm, use google
>> cache)
>
>
> The main issue I see with using embryo (or small, or Java) or any other
> byte-code/VM based machine is that it seems to make it much more
> difficult for the end-user to fix problems on their end. With the
> existing libtool they can hunt and peck through the scripts and
> implement local fixes, which may eventually become useful patches sent
> back to libtool. With a scheme which distributes "compiled" bytecode
> files, there is no possiblity of the end-user fixing the problem unless
> he installs the full libtool distribution package to he can modify the
> bytecode.
That would be no less true of a compiled ltmain.c.
It is already a little bit true of branch-2-0, since we build libtool (the
script) from a bunch of m4sh code, and the output of a whole bunch of
autoconf testing. Admittedly, you can still go in and tweak the code or
the values.
All that aside, we can have end-user tweakability, developer maintainability,
runtime execution speed. Pick any two :-)
Cheers,
Gary.
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